DeepSeek effect: India plans to build bias-free homegrown ChatGPT rival within 10 months, says Ashwini Vaishnaw

The DeepSeek fever has seemingly crossed the border and reached India. Not that India needed a “DeepSeek moment” to wake up—like it has for the US, for instance—but the world’s largest democracy has finally started to show intent and a plan as to how it will make breakthrough AI locally thereby reducing reliance on biggies like ChatGPT, Gemini, and new—but potentially groundbreaking—entrants like the DeepSeek R1.